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aspidie^e. 



POLTSTIOHUM SEMICORDATUM (Sw.) Caudex thick horizontal creeping ? very densely clothed with long (f of an 

 inch) subulate scales, stipites solitary (not tufted) stout a span and more long, shaggy with long slender paleaceous scales at length 

 deciduous fronds 2-3 feet long, broad or ovato-lanceolate (8-10 inches wide), coriaceo-membranaceous blackish-green (when dry) pinnated, 

 pinna articulated npon the rachis numerous approximate horizontal, from a broad sessile shortly petiolated semi-cordate base oblong 

 acuminate straight or falcate entire or obtusely crenate (near spinuulose,) sori mostly on the back of the veinlets m four series two en 

 each side, the inner one close by the costa the other between it and the margin, veins fascicled, involucres slightly convex depressed in 

 the middle suberose— var. 8. truncatum ; pinna at the base on each side transversely truncated. 



The specimen figured is from Moulmein, (Rev. C. S. P. Parish.) 



Hab. Xwa Kabin,Moulmein-This species occurs in slightly altered varieties in America, the W, Indian islands, Luzon, 

 Cochin, China, and Borneo. 



PLATE No. XXXV. 



